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6-Inning Pitcher Minimum · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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  all things Major League Baseball.
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  Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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  It all starts right now. Welcome back to the three O take
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  presented by a seat kick. This is episode 460.
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  I'll be your host Kyle Corwin. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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  Reyes. Nate.
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  Did you forget? No, I've told you before I'd
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  like, I like keeping people on their toes if they're in the
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  car, if they're driving, they're going following along.
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  Oh, this episode 4 I like. I'd like to know if they keep.
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  Them on their toes. I care.
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  I'd no, I'd if they're anything like me, they probably do
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  because when I listen to podcasts that I I listen to
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  thrive and are. You slightly impressed when you
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  hear that, when you hear like a big number, like an episode
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  number or oh. No, no, I'm not talking about,
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  I'm not talking about the number.
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  I'm not talking about the number.
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  I'm saying like when I'm, when I'm listening to a podcast I
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  listen to throughout the week, I'm kind of like reciting the
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  intro as the person, whoever's doing the intro is saying it.
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  So I like, I like keeping people on their toes by by switching up
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  the cadence a little bit. I.
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  See, I'm more impressed like it. I think when you think of the
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  number, it's like that's a, that's a lot.
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  You know what I mean? We're getting up there.
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  We're we're pushing 5 hundo we got.
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  To do something for 500? Can we make that agreement now?
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  It's it's a guarantee. We don't have to really make an
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  agreement, but we can officially we'll make an agreement to do
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  something big for 500. I got to map that out and figure
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  out when 500 balls hard pizza party would probably land.
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  We're going to make up some ground in the playoffs.
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  I that's true, that's true. Haven't really haven't really
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  run this by yet, but I I have an idea that we just need to crank
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  out pods during the postseason. Yeah, I'm down.
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  Like instead of the one or two a week, frank them out.
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  Maybe even like daily. That's too much.
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  Might be a. Little too much, but we'll.
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  I'm with it. We'll, we'll be.
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  We're closer to 500 than we think.
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  We'll get it'll line up in the offseason, right?
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  So yeah. I believe so.
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  I got a question for you. I almost pulled the trigger on
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  going to an Orioles game today. Orioles, Red Sox and I was going
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  to go by. Myself a loner game.
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  I was going to go by myself. Meredith had some, had a meeting
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  she had to go to, and so I was thinking, why not go by myself?
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  It's close enough. It'd take me like an hour and
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  some change to get there. May even run into Ryan, I don't
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  know. Friend of the pod Ryan Ripken.
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  So I was like, maybe let's see what the tickets are going for.
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  Pretty much across all the the websites.
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  The lowest I found was like $5.00.
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  So I'm like basically free. Dude.
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  Basically free, all I would have to really pay for is parking.
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  Right, get me, get me to the hiccup here because I'm
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  struggling to see the obstacle. Well, the time it was sort of,
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  it was a little bit of a time crunch.
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  We had to come home from church. I had to eat, had to walk Rookie
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  and I was like, I I can't, I can't pull this off because I'm
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  going to have to walk from wherever I'm parking.
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  My question. So I decided not to go.
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  My question to you, though, is what would it take for you to go
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  to a game by yourself? Because I've heard some people
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  have tried it and they've actually enjoyed it.
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  Like they enjoy the experience of not feeling obligated to have
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  to entertain anybody. Right.
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  Some people go there to to keep to to score the games, which is
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  a skill I've yet to learn. Really, I love keeping.
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  I love keeping score. You know I keep.
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  Score 100% Yeah. I got to I, I got to figure that
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  out a. 100% I don't remember. 30 and I still don't know.
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  I think it was in high school because like when I I got called
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  up to varsity as a sophomore and like barely, barely played that
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  summer before school started up. And so like I had, I had to
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  learn to keep book during summer ball because like, no, there's
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  no like no one in the crowd or anything, right?
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  It's summer ball in high school. So yeah, I had to learn.
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  And I think one of the pictures taught me and it's, it's like
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  soothing like it is. That is what I would do.
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  I would, I think if it was like if I get a ticket under 50 bucks
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  that had a decent seat, I would want a decent seat.
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  I think. I think that would be my focus
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  because I'm not someone who needs to get up during a game.
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  I think I would have, I would, I would get some seeds, I'd bring
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  my book and I'd just sit and I'd be set.
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  I really would. And I'd do the beer vendor
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  thing. If I did beer, I wouldn't get
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  up. I would try not to pee the whole
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  time. That's the way to go.
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  Yeah, I think I would be in my seat the whole time and I would
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  keep book keeping. Book is sweet.
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  I'll teach you. It's not hard.
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  Once you get the hang of it, you're like.
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  This is simple. I'm going to need to learn.
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  I'm genuinely ashamed of the fact that I don't know how to
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  All right, good to know. Good to know.
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  If I, if I, if I knew how to keep score, I would probably go
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  to baseball games by myself a lot more.
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  Yeah, I would need the day to be under $100.
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  Oh, for sure. Yeah, like parking ticket.
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  For yourself, for sure, yeah. You got to.
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  You got to keep up, not. Under 100.
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  Yeah, and then I'd it would be like guilt free thing.
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  I might look into that honestly. Kind of it's kind of a nice,
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  Yeah, nice idea, Yeah. Kind of kind of get the juicer
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  flow in a little bit. All right, let's let's talk some
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  current events here. Major League Baseball has come
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  out and announced that they are considering implementing A6
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  inning minimum for starting pitchers.
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  Now I have a confession to make. I did I, I, I will recognize
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  that when this headline first dropped, I texted you right away
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  with like the eyes, eye emojis. And then you're like, oh, you
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  like this idea. And I'm like, and I think, I
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  think what I said to you is that I don't like, I don't like rules
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  that force things. But of all the rules that Major
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  League Baseball has proposed as of late, and to be honest with
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  you, I didn't put much thought into all of the rules they
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  proposed. But sure, I would imagine of the
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  majority of rules that they proposed, this one for me gets
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  to the heart of something that I want in baseball.
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  But it's a root issue. It's a yeah, the root issue
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  here. The problem is I, I, I took some
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  time over the weekend to think about it and I think I'm walking
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  back the idea of, of me actually liking it because, and it's not
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  that I'm really changing my point of view on the, on this
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  new 6th inning minimum idea. It's that is no, that's, that's
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  what I'm trying to say. It's less of me changing my mind
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  and more of me sticking to what I said initially in that I don't
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  like the idea of things being forced.
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  Do I want to see starting pitching regain the to, to use
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  the word Major League Baseball, use prestige?
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  Do I want, do I want starting pitching to recover that, to
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  retain that, to reintroduce that into the game?
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  Yes. Do I want Major League Baseball
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  to have their grubby little hands involved forcing you via
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  rule, via regulation, via threat of of penalty?
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  Do I want it to be accomplished that way?
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  No, we don't like getting political on here, but I kind of
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  feel the same way about the government.
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  It's like, do I want the government?
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  I'm going to grab a little hands on, on my hard earned money on,
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  on what I can and can't do at my house, things like that.
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  It's kind of same way with Major League Baseball.
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  It's like I, I want starting pitching to be more of a thing
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  because I'm over and I think I, I, I probably speak for you
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  here. I'm over the whole like opener,
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  starter experiment. In fact, I was never really on
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  board with that to begin with, but I want it to come back
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  naturally. I don't want it to be forced
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  upon us. I don't want there to be this
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  weird threat of penalty because then it, it's less about it's,
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  it's less about philosophy, a change in philosophy or a return
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  to a former philosophy and more about enforcement.
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  And it's like, if that's how you're going to reintroduce
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  starting pitching into the game, I'd rather just keep things the
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  way they are. Because you're eventually, and
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  we talked about this with, with the pitch clock and other things
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  is you're going to get to the point where there's so much that
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  you have to be aware of and be thinking of that it become, it's
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  like I texted you, it becomes a board game.
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  I don't want Major League Baseball to become a board game
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  where you have to whip out the, the rules pamphlet and go, well,
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  we can do this, but we can't do this.
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  We can do this after the 6th inning.
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  We have to pull our DH if our pitcher has thrown only 5
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  innings. It's like at that point, you're
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  going to, you're going to implement so many rules and
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  regulations that you're, you're, you're molding the outcome of
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  the game almost. And you're, you're, you're
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  putting so much, so many boundaries around the game
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  itself that there's only going to be so many avenues or out
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  courses of action that you can take as a manager, as a player,
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  whatever. I just, I just want it to happen
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  naturally, that's all. I think if, if you were to take
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  an outside stance, an outside view, I think the game could
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  already feel that way in certain ways.
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  You know what I mean? Like imagine describing AI don't
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  know, like a like a drop, a drop 3rd strike or a Bach or you
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  know, some some weird thing to a fan that has never like really
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  paid attention to the game before.
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  Like imagine describing that and you're like, well, that's this
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  is like a very technical thing or even a check swing, you know,
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  being such a like a subjective rule.
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  I think it is something that we would probably get used to.
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  I think you and I are very obviously AL side of things, but
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  I think if you were to look at our generation and older from
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  the NL side of things, I think there's a lot of aspects to
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  managing that we miss. And I when we were talking, you
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  know, a few years ago about a universal DH, you know, just
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  across both leagues, we were talking about, you know, like
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  double switches. And we were just, we were
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  talking about some of the management skill from the NL
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  side. Now, I'm not saying that
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  outweighed a universal DH, OK, I'm pro universal DH, you're pro
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  universal DH. But there are aspects that we
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  lost and there was no real way to get them back into the game.
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  Then I think you could argue that this could potentially
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  bring back a little bit more of this management, a little more
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  of this gut feel instead of being so calculated, instead of
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  being so analytical heavy. And the proposal, I don't even
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  know if this was official or not, but the the exceptions were
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  over 100 pitches, excuse me, over 100 pitches, giving up four
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  plus runs. The exceptions were if the
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  pitcher suffers an injury, which I would hope.
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  I mean, does that even need to be stated?
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  Guy goes out there, blows his elbow out, buddy.
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  You got to stick it out. You got two more Indians here.
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  I don't. I don't know what to tell you.
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  You have 75 pitches left, Sir. I'm going to need to see what
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  that other arm can do. Yeah, we'd see a we'd see a huge
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  rise in ambidextrous pitching. I'll just say that.
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  No, the exceptions are the pitcher suffers an injury,
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  exceeds 100 pitches, allows 4 earned runs, and I think those
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  are the ones we know of as of now.
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  I think let me ask you this and not that, not that this is a
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  part of the proposal or not, but like if we got this, would you
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  give up the three batter minimum by bullpen guys, by relievers?
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  Are you asking me or are you just?
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  Asking like that that rule you personally like because the the
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  three or end end of the inning kind of conversation.
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  Do you and I I'm I'm trying to be fully transparent here.
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  I don't remember my my initial take when they when they
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  proposed A3 hitter minimum for pitchers.
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  Do were we on board with that or were we?
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  I think we were pretty indifferent about it.
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  I feel pretty indifferent about it.
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  I think it has eliminated again, we're we're losing certain
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  aspects of the game. And I'm asking what the risk
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  reward is for that. Like, what is the reward that
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  we've received for this? Right.
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  And I guess it's probably speed up the game because of pitching
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  changes and, you know, the five to 10 extra minutes that you may
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  get over the span of a game of a reliever warming up.
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  But what I'm saying is that like, we've lost a lefty
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  specialist, right? Like we've lost the art of a
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  certain amount of things. We've like, I think pinch
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  hitting is is pretty dead. Like there's a lot of things
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  that we've lost in this game. And it just makes you wonder
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  that if this six pitch, you know, the six inning minimum
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  could reintroduce certain things that we used to have.
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  Is that crazy to say? Like, I personally all all air
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  on the side of me being a fan of it because it does give us
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  something. It does allow a manager to have
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  to play chess a little bit more. And I don't think there's
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  anything wrong with game planning or, or having a, you
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  know, an idea of what you want to do in case this happens.
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  But at the same time, like it's, it's broken down.
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  I'm I'm so sick of numbers being shoved in my face of like second
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  time through the lineup, what's the OPS third time through the
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  lineup, what's the OPS like? I enough, enough is enough.
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  Like at the same time, does that have to be just just rubbed
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  across the entire universal thinking of like, what if this
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  guy's in a groove? What if this guy is feeling
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  better tonight than he's has been in the past?
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  Like it's, it's so calculated that I'm exhausted.
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  I will. On that note, I will say it was
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  very refreshing this year to see Tanner Howe be given a long
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  enough leash where he's able to pitch into the line of a third
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  time. Whereas years prior, the second
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  he finished his second cycle through the lineup, he was out.
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  It didn't matter how well he's pitching because the numbers
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  showed that he just cannot pitch well enough to warrant keeping
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  him in for a third time through the lineup.
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  And this year something approach change.
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  He he made some some mechanical tweaks.
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  Andrew Bailey got in and and made some changes to the way he
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  goes about certain hitters in a throughout the lineup.
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  And we're able to see that now. And I know for some people that
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  hear that they may not care, They may go, OK, second time
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  through the lineup, third time through the lineup.
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  It doesn't matter. I just want to see good
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  pitching, whether it's from the starter or from a pen.
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  I hear you. But as as somebody like myself
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  who appreciates a a starter who can be a horse for you that can,
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  I know it's crazy pitch into like, I don't know, the 7th
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  inning. It's just like it's it.
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  It's refreshing to see when a guy's given a a long, he's given
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  a longer leash than maybe he was in the past.
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  But going back to my point, though, about this proposed
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  minimum, I just don't like that that being forced.
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  I like seeing it come come about naturally to and again to use
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  Tanner Howick as an example, like.
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  It. It it shifted into him going
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  deeper into games and Major League Baseball didn't have
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  their hands on it. But with this minimum, then you
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  run into the you run into the you, you run the risk of
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  injuries. And and I saw a lot of people
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  talking about how well Major League Baseball has seen a
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  higher rate of injuries from from pitchers than I don't know
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  ever or since a certain date and time.
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  And and they're they're counter to that is is Indians minimum.
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  So like well. What if?
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  What if the counter? What if the counter causes,
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  causes 85% on this pitch, 90% on this pitch, all geared up to
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  100% for this O2 count and then I can dial it back to 90%.
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  We talked to those old school guys in, in our, in our, you
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  know, Mount Rushmore of pitchers.
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  That's how they all talk. That's how they all talk.
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  You know, it can't, it can't be just 100% every single pitch,
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  putting our bodies to the limits because we've seen how how
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  shortened performance we're getting.
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  We've already seen it like a Paul Skean's velocity drop,
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  right? And now everyone's fearful.
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  What I'm saying is that, like, does it bring back the idea of
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  pitching and not just throwing? Can we bring back the skill of
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  pitching and not so much of, you know, the, the typical outcomes
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  that we're used to, right? And it's, it's weird to say that
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  like, you know, what's the, the strikeout record in the game is
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  like 1920, you know, when we're not even sniffing that anymore
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  in a, in a day where strikeouts are happening more often, but
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  it's because pitchers aren't sticking around long enough.
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  It's very strange and I don't know, I don't maybe they're, I
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  heard this idea that I thought was pretty cool a few years ago
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  when this when this first started getting talked about was
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  like the before universal DH showed up was like, what if we
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  you lose your DH when the starter comes out?
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  You know, and if we're yanking starters out in the third inning
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  and you're losing your DH that, you know, like does it promote
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  more athleticism to get that DH into the field more regularly?
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  Does it motivate that manager to, you know, use his bench more
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  and and navigate that a little bit more?
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  Does it motivate AGM to have a deeper bench and not so much of
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  this up and down thing? So like I'm just wondering what
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  is the ripple effect from this right like?
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  We talked about bigger bases for safety, but no, that's actually
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  been an uptick in stolen bases, right?
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  You combine that with the limited pick off moves.
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  What are the limited pick off moves for?
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  Well, this was the short and the length of a game.
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  Now it's the uptick of more stolen bases, right?
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  So what is the ripple effect outside of this 6 plus inning?
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  Is it just about longevity or can we get other positive things
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  to happen? That's where I'm at with this.
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  I, I, I'm erring on the side of being for it.
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  I and, and I'd like the art of pitching.
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  I think that's an incredible thing to watch.
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  And you and I joke about like, you know, I don't even know if
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  we've said this on air or not, but like the lack of baseball IQ
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  that we've seen these guys. Like the athleticism is through
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  the roof, but it's terrible IQ. And there's examples.
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  All of that's not just us like you, you hear these
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  broadcasters, coaches, coaches, scouts, who who was it that I
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  mentioned? I heard say that was like Tim
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  Kirchen. I think you you don't think Tim
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  Kirchen has has been around the block.
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  He's he's seen generation after generation of player and he's
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  sitting there going, yeah, these guys are are through the roof
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  when it comes to to talent and and ability.
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  But the baseball IQ sucks. I'm just saying that like we
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  spent decades, decades watching starting pitchers do this anyway
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  with less injuries. How are we going to sit here and
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  say this is going to cause more injuries?
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  Well, on that note, Spencer asked a great question in the
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  chat. He says if the trade off is
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  long, if the trade off is long term better health for pitchers
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  and keeping the stars in the game, is it worth it?
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  Yes. But I, I guess my, my answer to
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  that would be why? Why can't it be both?
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  Like why I, I heard somebody the other day say, or maybe was it,
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  was it you were we talking about it or on a broadcast or
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  something? But somebody said that we just
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  like ran. I think it was you actually that
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  we just randomly pulled 100 pitches like out of thin air.
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  And that seems that's like this magic number for pitch counts.
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  When, when, if you look at the data, maybe it wasn't you that
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  said it. Maybe I'm, it may have been
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  talking about on a broadcast where they're just talking about
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  like, why are, why are we so focused on when a pitcher hits
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  100 a hundred pitch Max that he he's done?
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  Like why is that? Why can't we, Why can't we
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  adjust our approach and philosophy on on pitching to
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  your point that you made earlier, not going 100% every
• 23:02
  single pitch, learning to manage your body, learning to manage
• 23:07
  your workload throughout a game so you can go deeper but also
• 23:11
  stay healthy and stay on the diamond.
• 23:14
  Why can't? Why can't it be both?
• 23:16
  Why can't it be both, right? I it was a few weeks ago and you
• 23:21
  have to have the caveat of the fact that like we have had a lot
• 23:24
  of big time starters go down this year, but I think MLB now
• 23:29
  put out the top 10, ER, as in baseball a few weeks ago and
• 23:36
  eight of the names were below the league average fastball.
• 23:41
  Their velocity was slower than the league average fastball.
• 23:45
  Did you see the counter to that where it was like the top 10 Max
• 23:50
  velocity or like the top ten highest velocities in baseball,
• 23:54
  like nine of them? Are all out on injury.
• 23:56
  Have hit the shelf, have gone under the knife and I think
• 23:59
  hunter green hunter hunter green was the only one who had and I'm
• 24:02
  not going to wish I'll on the kid but like it it if if the
• 24:05
  rest of that sample size is any indication.
• 24:09
  Like, I just could be, could be. I think it's, I think it's
• 24:12
  unfair to just blanket the statement of like 100 pitches
• 24:16
  equals injury or more than 100 pitches equals this.
• 24:19
  Like it's what those pitches are.
• 24:22
  And to sit here and say all pitches are created equal,
• 24:25
  that's not the case. We know that.
• 24:27
  We've seen that. We've witnessed that for
• 24:28
  decades. And again, like if we think
• 24:31
  about all of these Mount Rushmore names, that's how they
• 24:37
  talk. That's how they pitched.
• 24:40
  And it was more of a chess match.
• 24:42
  I saw. I don't know if you saw that
• 24:44
  quick. Yeah.
• 24:44
  I mean, this, we can go on this tangent forever, but it was like
• 24:47
  a Barry Bonds short, little like clip of him watching an iPad of
• 24:53
  an at bat he had against Greg Maddox.
• 24:55
  And he was saying all the things.
• 24:57
  And then Greg Maddox is somewhere else watching the same
• 24:59
  clip, and he's talking about how he's going to attack Barry
• 25:02
  Bonds. And Barry Bonds knew that.
• 25:06
  When's the last time you've heard one of those
• 25:07
  conversations? When's the last time?
• 25:12
  Because every hitter's, every hitter's response is, I just
• 25:15
  want to get on time. How about it's like know the guy
• 25:20
  that you're facing and understand an approach of when
• 25:24
  certain things happen in certain counts, then how a pitcher is
• 25:28
  going to attack you. Like the the mental side of a
• 25:32
  game is just really changed. And I'm not saying we need to be
• 25:36
  this way or that way. I'm just saying that like, I
• 25:41
  think this could have a very good ripple effect, even though
• 25:46
  we're so worked up about a big rule change that is game board,
• 25:52
  you know, like it's like, I get that.
• 25:55
  I definitely understand that argument, but it feels like
• 25:58
  there could be some good things that come out of it.
• 26:00
  It's probably not the best cop, but it's it's just the first one
• 26:03
  that came to mind. It's like, it's like Major
• 26:05
  League Baseball's England and the game and the players are the
• 26:11
  13 colonies. My my feeling on this whole
• 26:15
  pitcher minimum thing is like. Talk to them.
• 26:18
  Intentions may be good, but leave it up to the people leave
• 26:21
  it up to the game. Let let, like I said, let the
• 26:24
  philosophy calibrate itself or or adjust.
• 26:27
  I mean, I, I don't, I don't need the league jumping in, be like,
• 26:30
  hey, this is how it's going to be now.
• 26:33
  Sure. Well, this, he's going to be
• 26:34
  voted on. All of it is voted on.
• 26:36
  All these rules with the MLBPA are going to be a part of the
• 26:39
  equation. It either gets passed or it
• 26:40
  doesn't, right? It's like a bill in Congress.
• 26:43
  You know what I mean? Like MLBPA can shut this down
• 26:46
  and we won't see the light of day with this.
• 26:50
  No, but it well, again, it's, it's not the concept that I'm
• 26:54
  against. It's just the, it's the
• 26:55
  enforcement of it that is and and threat to threat of penalty.
• 26:59
  It's just going to be too much. And it, it's like, if you think,
• 27:04
  if you think that Major League Baseball is going to like pull
• 27:07
  back their they're going to go laissez faire, all of a sudden
• 27:10
  be like, Hey, we had this rule for three seasons.
• 27:15
  We're going to pull it back, but we're going to hope that you
• 27:17
  guys are going to do. It's not how that's going to it.
• 27:19
  It needs to come about naturally.
• 27:21
  And so if Major League Baseball does this, they're not, they're
• 27:24
  going to, it's going to be a rule until they decide to, to do
• 27:28
  away with it. It's not going to be, it's not
• 27:30
  going to be, Hey, we want this to be, to continue to be a
• 27:33
  thing, but we don't want to have any part in it anymore.
• 27:35
  It's it's either going to be all or nothing.
• 27:37
  And I just, I think that's that's too.
• 27:38
  Much. I mean, I think there's little
• 27:39
  things you can put that guideline out there with, right,
• 27:42
  like the mound visits. Everyone was up and roar about
• 27:44
  the mound. And I know this is like a way
• 27:47
  drastically less. It's like way less drastic.
• 27:50
  But the mound visit limitations, like now we don't even notice.
• 27:55
  I bet there's a lot of people that go to the game and don't
• 27:57
  even really pay attention to that on how many visits are
• 27:59
  left, right? It's not even really that much
• 28:01
  of a factor. But what if it's something as
• 28:04
  simple as that? Like, hey, if it's less than six
• 28:07
  innings, if your starter goes less than six innings, you lose
• 28:11
  a bench guy. Tell me what bench guy you're
• 28:14
  losing. Well, that.
• 28:15
  Right. Cross them off the list and you
• 28:17
  can't use them for the rest of the game.
• 28:18
  Like if there's some type of punishment where maybe it
• 28:22
  doesn't come into the play it like there's plenty of games we
• 28:25
  watch where we're not going to see every bench guy.
• 28:27
  Plenty of games. So what if there is one where
• 28:30
  it's like that is the punishment and sometimes it shows up,
• 28:34
  sometimes it doesn't. You know what I mean?
• 28:38
  Well, that line of thinking goes back to the beginning, like the
• 28:40
  very first conversation we had about any sort of major change
• 28:45
  in in ruler gameplay that Major League Baseball try to
• 28:48
  introduce. And it was the thought that do
• 28:52
  what you're going to do, but don't affect the, I don't want
• 28:57
  to say integrity of the game, but like don't, don't do
• 29:01
  something that overly impacts the actual play of the game.
• 29:05
  And I, I think something like eliminating a bench guy would be
• 29:10
  one of those things that doesn't fall within that realm.
• 29:14
  It's not, you're not, if a guy falls short of the 6th inning
• 29:18
  minimum, you're not giving the other team two outs to start the
• 29:23
  next half inning or something. Because that would be, I'd be
• 29:25
  like, OK, now we're getting into serious board game mode here
• 29:29
  and, and we're starting to put all these penalties and
• 29:32
  restrictions into the game. A bench player removing a bench
• 29:36
  player, I think would be something that would, would
• 29:39
  serve as a good idea because it's like it, it certainly
• 29:41
  impacts the game. But to your point, there are
• 29:44
  plenty of games where that doesn't even, it doesn't even
• 29:46
  come into play. So it wouldn't even matter.
• 29:48
  So yeah, it's I'm on the fence about it.
• 29:53
  I, I know how I feel about the concept.
• 29:56
  Like I said, I I like, I think we.
• 29:58
  Want to? See more starting pitching.
• 30:00
  We could all agree that we would enjoy the outcome.
• 30:03
  It's the. It's how you get there.
• 30:05
  It's the process of of getting there.
• 30:07
  Yeah. And I don't fully.
• 30:09
  I don't disagree with you there. I don't know.
• 30:13
  We'll see. I did.
• 30:14
  I did read that it would take years.
• 30:16
  It would take. Years, years to implement this.
• 30:19
  So this this probably won't be something we we visit for a long
• 30:23
  time. It would take, it would take a
• 30:25
  long time, well #1 because we don't even have the next CBA
• 30:28
  until 2028 or. Something, yeah.
• 30:31
  But #2 I mean, it's, it's the fact that like, this has to go,
• 30:35
  this is a, this is a systematic change.
• 30:38
  This is the way you're bringing guys up through your system and
• 30:42
  the ripple effect of getting into college and youth ball, you
• 30:45
  know, like that's it changes a lot of the approach of pitching.
• 30:57
  Suck Aaron Judge. Fuck.
• 31:00
  We just talked about Aaron Judge last episode but I was unaware
• 31:05
  that he was knocking on the door.
• 31:06
  I forgot to be honest. Number 300.
• 31:09
  I think it was like. You get like oddly numb to what
• 31:12
  he's doing, man. I mean, it's crazy.
• 31:14
  So yeah, we haven't, we haven't talked since he had 300.
• 31:17
  I think it happened like the day after we recorded last.
• 31:20
  It did go figure. But wanted to get your thoughts
• 31:24
  on the on the mark. Wanted to get your thoughts on
• 31:27
  in my mind, in my, in my opinion, the ridiculous
• 31:31
  proposition that he's even within the realm of, of reaching
• 31:35
  any sort of home run record in, in terms of a career.
• 31:40
  Don't know. Don't know why that's even a
• 31:42
  conversation that's that's even taking place.
• 31:46
  Although your boy Juan Soto was like, yeah, I'd love to see him
• 31:49
  do it. Yet another instance of Juan
• 31:52
  Soto not having a feel for, you know, like just basic math.
• 31:58
  But give me your thoughts on on the feet.
• 32:00
  Give me your thoughts on I, I wanted to hear your take
• 32:04
  specifically on him specifically as a hitter, obviously, since
• 32:12
  we're talking home runs. But in terms of the the, the
• 32:17
  length of time that you've watched him as a hitter in, in
• 32:21
  the years that he's been up in the league, which as we know got
• 32:24
  up, he was a for all intents and purposes a late bloomer as it as
• 32:29
  it compares or. Relates to, I mean, he went, he
• 32:32
  went all the way through college, right?
• 32:34
  Yeah. I don't think he cracked in.
• 32:36
  I think 20 end of 2016 is when he made his debut with a
• 32:41
  September call up and then didn't do anything.
• 32:45
  Yeah. And then 17 looked pretty
• 32:47
  decent. So has there been a shift in his
• 32:54
  approach as a hitter as his career has gone on?
• 32:58
  Because I feel like if a guy is this talented and is capable of
• 33:03
  putting up the numbers seemingly year after year the judge is
• 33:06
  putting up right now, why then? Why then did this story not get
• 33:13
  started sooner? Because I, I, I have to put my,
• 33:17
  my anti Yankee bias aside here as a baseball fan, I would have
• 33:21
  loved to have been able to, to follow the, the possible path to
• 33:27
  a career home run record from judge as a, as a baseball fan.
• 33:31
  But unfortunately we're not going to get that.
• 33:33
  But it sucks because what he's doing year after year, if you
• 33:37
  were to extrapolate that, if you were to give him the time
• 33:40
  required, assuming he stays healthy, I feel like he does
• 33:44
  that, but for some reason just didn't get an an early enough
• 33:48
  start to enable him the opportunity to do that.
• 33:51
  So what do you think in your opinion has has occurred?
• 33:57
  Probably I would say the last handful of years, especially
• 34:01
  given his his power surge. What do you think has happened?
• 34:04
  What do you think has changed? Two things I want to get out of
• 34:08
  the way before I get into it. Number one, I'm if you're a
• 34:13
  broadcaster, I won't, I won't say aficionado, but like in
• 34:17
  appreciation for broadcasting, Ryan Ruko on the call killed it
• 34:22
  again. Ryan Ruko to me is going to be
• 34:26
  one of the best when he gets like a full time broadcasting
• 34:29
  job. Number two, it was on a three O
• 34:32
  count, which he hasn't hit a home run on a three O count in
• 34:34
  like 2 years. So that was pretty neat and it
• 34:36
  was like six or seven inches inside.
• 34:40
  He pulled his hands in and just yanked it down the line.
• 34:43
  And this this was following the intentional walk for Soto,
• 34:46
  correct? It was because Soto had the four
• 34:49
  home runs in two games. So Grady Sizemore getting
• 34:52
  immediately introduced to some crazy, some crazy hitters going
• 34:59
  on. But the I mean, he's pretty
• 35:07
  polarizing for his methods that he teaches.
• 35:11
  But that teacher man, old guy that he goes to, he's a chubby
• 35:16
  old guy and he talks about like this like flick and he kind of
• 35:20
  it's it's a little bit of a barrel dump, but it's it's been
• 35:26
  something that judges adopted piss.
• 35:28
  Like you can go back even I think they were showing clips of
• 35:31
  his first career home run. You can go back and see that.
• 35:35
  And it does not look like mechanically anything close to
• 35:39
  what he's doing now. And he talks about it in
• 35:44
  interviews and stuff that it like it took some time to invest
• 35:48
  into that, really buy into it fully, practice that in the
• 35:53
  offseason. And then it's just kind of
• 35:55
  blossom into what this is. And it's more of a mechanical
• 35:59
  approach than anything else. And then you watched him like,
• 36:04
  you know, 17/18/1920 even you started talking about like the
• 36:09
  number of strikeouts. So it was like, all right, the
• 36:12
  mechanics are there. We can see this guy's got crazy
• 36:14
  pop. But now let's start working on,
• 36:18
  you know, our hot and cold zones.
• 36:21
  And now you've watched him start to lay off of that soft and away
• 36:25
  stuff, you know, the slider down and out that he usually pulls
• 36:29
  off of the fastball up and in all of this stuff started to
• 36:33
  come about. And then he starts using right
• 36:36
  field more. And now he would, you could
• 36:39
  argue he, you know, prefers that ball away to stay away with it.
• 36:44
  And then it was like, all right, well, let's bust him in.
• 36:46
  Let's bust him in with, you know, fastballs in and, and
• 36:50
  watch him get tied up. So he's like, all right, well,
• 36:53
  let me take care of the fastball in.
• 36:55
  And now this year is obviously last year and this year, I think
• 36:58
  what you've seen is like the full on complete hitter of Aaron
• 37:04
  Judge. The mechanics are in check,
• 37:06
  right? The approach is in check.
• 37:09
  I can take care of that fastball and I can still get to it.
• 37:12
  I can stay, you know, I can spit on the stuff that's down and out
• 37:16
  and I can stay away on on that away, you know, ball in the zone
• 37:20
  and just use Yankee Stadium to to his benefit.
• 37:24
  So it's it's just like this full complete hitter and it speaks
• 37:29
  volumes when I know we're not like in love with batting
• 37:32
  average anymore as a game. But like this man's hitting 332
• 37:37
  at this very second with an 1168 OPS.
• 37:42
  He's slugging in the seven hundreds, slugging like we have
• 37:49
  guys in this lineup, they don't even have an OPS in the seven
• 37:52
  hundreds. It's insane what this guy's
• 37:55
  doing. So this is like to be the most
• 37:59
  complete and I think when it's all said and done, we'll
• 38:04
  probably look back at like a, the way we look back at like a
• 38:11
  Jacob degrom or like a Tim Lin succumb guys that were like so
• 38:15
  dominant in this period in their career.
• 38:18
  But when you look at like the overall career numbers, you're
• 38:21
  like now that doesn't really tell the whole story.
• 38:23
  I think Judge is going to fall into that category.
• 38:25
  I could see him finishing in the 4:50 to 500 range in home runs
• 38:31
  and and you're really not going to be able to look at like the
• 38:35
  grand scheme of numbers and compare him to the big names and
• 38:39
  say, no, this guy was up there with them because of the late
• 38:43
  start, because of this mechanical thing.
• 38:46
  But from here it's just like, all right, we'll stay healthy,
• 38:51
  age well and put up numbers because it seems like he's
• 38:57
  really kind of clicked on all levels.
• 39:02
  Fastest player in MLB history to reach the 300 career home run
• 39:06
  mark did it 955 games and in his 3400 and 31st at bat.
• 39:16
  The previous leaders for those marks, Ralph Kiner, reached 300
• 39:20
  homers in his 1080 seventh game. So I was like, what?
• 39:24
  I'll get 130 games more. 100 and quick math 32132 I believe and
• 39:35
  then Babe Ruth did it in his 3800 and 31st at bat which is
• 39:39
  400 ABS fewer for judge. Then again, like I think we can
• 39:45
  all agree that pitching has never been better than it is now
• 39:51
  as far as Velo and movement. Yeah, we don't need to pull at
• 39:53
  the thread. Of not going to pull at that
• 39:54
  other. Part of thread, but yeah, we
• 39:56
  don't need to pull pull the thread of errors.
• 39:58
  And yeah, we can appreciate greatness in that time.
• 40:02
  And this is greatness. I've said it time and time
• 40:07
  again, it's all relative. Because if it was so easy when
• 40:13
  Babe Ruth was doing it, then how come everyone was how how come
• 40:17
  nobody else was doing what he was doing?
• 40:20
  It's all relative. That's all you need to know
• 40:24
  about the whole, like generation to generation thing.
• 40:27
  Yeah. Playing against plumbers.
• 40:28
  OK. Well, why weren't all the
• 40:30
  plumbers? And if there's just plumbers
• 40:31
  playing plumbers, why weren't all the rest of the plumbers
• 40:35
  doing what Babe Ruth was doing? That's all.
• 40:36
  I mean, it's it's it's it's relative.
• 40:38
  It's it's simple. Let's talk, let's talk some
• 40:44
  unfortunate IL news. Tyler Glass now placed on the 15
• 40:48
  day IL. Right in time for our fantasy
• 40:51
  match up. With some elbow tendonitis,
• 40:54
  yeah. Little little tangent here.
• 40:58
  The Three O Tech Fantasy League Nate and I have arrived.
• 41:03
  We are now meeting in the semifinals of the Three O Tech
• 41:06
  Fantasy League I. Don't remember last time this
• 41:08
  happened. A match up nobody saw coming.
• 41:11
  They didn't believe in us. They said there's no way they
• 41:14
  end up in the semis and here we are.
• 41:17
  We're here. A trip to the Championship on
• 41:21
  the line. I'm coming off of bye week.
• 41:23
  I'm pretty sluggish. I.
• 41:24
  Got Oh yeah, OK, that's a good point.
• 41:27
  OK, so we we talk all the time about like the play out, the
• 41:30
  expanded postseason and like the effect it has on the team to get
• 41:33
  the first round bye. I've had I've been on both
• 41:36
  sides. I've had that by and I've I've
• 41:39
  this is now my my first time fighting to get into the next
• 41:43
  round. And I got to say you're tapped.
• 41:46
  I'm I'm I'm feeling what the Phillies were saying what a year
• 41:51
  or two ago and they're like, no, we want to we want to be
• 41:54
  playing. I I feel the effects of that and
• 41:58
  I'm on board with with just give me a match up.
• 42:02
  I don't care. I don't care who I'm up against,
• 42:03
  just give me the match up because I'm I'm tapped in so.
• 42:07
  These these two weeks I think I've checked my line up like
• 42:10
  three or four times. I don't even know why you did it
• 42:12
  that many times. You're not playing anybody.
• 42:14
  But now. Just that and drop some dudes.
• 42:17
  But now you're playing me so. Lock it to.
• 42:20
  You're going to lock it back in? Yeah.
• 42:23
  Lock it in. Yeah, Tyler got us out of the 15
• 42:27
  day aisle with right elbow tendonitis.
• 42:30
  It's his second stint this year. I'll be honest with you, I don't
• 42:33
  remember. The first, it just happened.
• 42:35
  It just happened. I think he came.
• 42:37
  He was supposed to come back for a day and make a start.
• 42:41
  He's been out for a while. He hasn't pitched in.
• 42:44
  I don't know how long he he had like a back thing, didn't he?
• 42:50
  And then he was out. They they did a 15 dayer and
• 42:55
  then he was supposed to come back.
• 42:57
  He was something he was supposed to come back and start and then
• 43:02
  the day he was supposed to start, they put him on another
• 43:05
  IL stint. So he I don't even let me see.
• 43:09
  I don't think there was a start in between.
• 43:11
  Early July with back tightness. Yeah.
• 43:15
  OK. Yeah, I don't.
• 43:16
  I barely remember that. Interesting.
• 43:18
  So and he please hold, please hold.
• 43:25
  OK, so he made two starts. Oh, he made four starts.
• 43:34
  OK, so he pitched on July 5th, IL stint came back the 24th,
• 43:42
  July 30th, August 5th and then August 11th and then another
• 43:48
  stint. So he made four starts in
• 43:50
  between those stints. This is just freaking par for
• 43:57
  the course for the Dodgers man like this is weird.
• 44:00
  All right, hear me out though. Par for the course for the
• 44:02
  Dodgers if you take a look at Tyler Glasna's career.
• 44:07
  I wasn't, I, I wasn't familiar with this until I looked it up.
• 44:12
  I'm already chalking this this season up for Tyler Glasna was a
• 44:16
  win for him personally. The amount of starts he's made.
• 44:18
  He this is his career high. That's he's, he's already made
• 44:22
  his career. He's made 22 starts.
• 44:25
  His previous career high was last year, which he made 21.
• 44:30
  So honestly, if Tyler Glasson didn't make another start the
• 44:33
  rest of the season like that would be unfortunate, but you
• 44:37
  know, good for him. The whole thing was like, oh,
• 44:40
  well, can he stay healthy? Can he stay healthy?
• 44:42
  Sure. He this is his second trip to
• 44:44
  the IL. We've we've, we've acknowledged
• 44:47
  that. But to come over to LA, the
• 44:51
  microscope is is a little more intense I would imagine.
• 44:55
  And he puts up a career high and game started.
• 44:57
  I don't think any of that matters.
• 44:59
  I think he needs to be back. For the personally though, I'm
• 45:02
  not, I'm not saying for the team or or the the postseason.
• 45:06
  I'm just saying for him. I'm just saying the perception
• 45:08
  is is only going to be positive if he is back in pitching in the
• 45:12
  postseason, which I'm assuming that's what this is about.
• 45:17
  I would go ahead and assume it. I don't like.
• 45:23
  Like hold on, hold on. Are you?
• 45:25
  Are, are you saying that this is a are you?
• 45:28
  That's what I'm saying, that this is a strategic move here.
• 45:31
  I don't, I don't, I don't like calling fake or non fake on
• 45:35
  injuries, but we've seen a ridiculous amount of IO
• 45:40
  manipulation, ghosting for for yeah, that's a thing.
• 45:45
  So to sit there and and say that's not and every injury is,
• 45:48
  is legit, that's naive. I think this is a little bit of
• 45:54
  load management. I think that's what that is.
• 45:56
  And the same thing of what we witnessed with Kershaw for the
• 45:58
  first, I don't know, 3-4 months of the season.
• 46:02
  But can If you're the Dodgers, can you afford to do that,
• 46:05
  though you're only three games up in the West?
• 46:08
  They're in, you know they're in. And, and it's like, I think this
• 46:14
  is what you're going to start seeing with expanded postseason
• 46:17
  rock, with expanded postseason teams getting in.
• 46:21
  I think if we're going to be if we're going to analyze every
• 46:24
  single everything and put everything under the microscope
• 46:27
  in this game, I can guarantee you that there are teams already
• 46:30
  changing their philosophy on how they're approaching this
• 46:34
  offseason and saying or I mean this postseason and saying, hey,
• 46:38
  like, look at the amount of teams that have had a first
• 46:40
  round buy and gotten to where they need to be.
• 46:43
  Look at how many teams have gone in through the wild card and
• 46:45
  gotten deeper. I don't I don't know how much
• 46:49
  teams are prioritizing winning the division at this point.
• 46:53
  I'm not going to say every team is of that philosophy.
• 46:57
  But to sit here and say that no teams are, that's got to be in
• 47:00
  the back of your mind somewhere. And it's like, hey, you know,
• 47:04
  maybe that's what this team needs.
• 47:06
  There's a little bit of kick in the rear and say, hey, you
• 47:08
  didn't win the division. You haven't done anything yet.
• 47:14
  That ring is not super impressive from a few years ago.
• 47:18
  So here it is. Let's get into the wild card and
• 47:22
  and be the underdog, be the team that everyone thinks wasn't good
• 47:25
  enough to win the division. I don't know whatever.
• 47:28
  What I'm saying is that like the manipulation happens.
• 47:34
  I think if they're in, they're in.
• 47:37
  I would still be fearful of playing that team and this is
• 47:41
  all about just having him healthy and for all the reasons
• 47:44
  you just stated. This is the most starts.
• 47:46
  I don't know, innings wise it's got to be pretty close to career
• 47:49
  high and innings too. I actually didn't check that I
• 47:51
  can check. So just just, you know, just a
• 47:55
  little food for thought, that's all.
• 47:59
  He is currently logged through this point of the season has
• 48:03
  logged 134 innings and that is in fact a career high as well.
• 48:09
  Previous career high last year was was his career high for both
• 48:13
  marks. Game started last year 21
• 48:15
  innings pitched 120. This year as I mentioned 22
• 48:20
  start. So he has topped his previous
• 48:22
  high and this inning 134 top. Enter Enter in that Jonah clip,
• 48:29
  That Jonah Hill clip in Moneyball where they're asking
• 48:32
  about like, are we still considering this a set a
• 48:35
  success? Right.
• 48:35
  They're going through the season, they're going through
• 48:37
  the season. Do we still?
• 48:38
  And he's like, if we're within four games of the of the
• 48:41
  division by this time, yes, I think this is a success.
• 48:47
  Who's to say the Dodgers aren't doing the same thing?
• 48:49
  The Dodgers, I feel like are a team that are very focused and
• 48:53
  concerned with optics. So like I feel like the I, I
• 48:58
  hear your point on teams. At some point the overall optics
• 49:01
  have to be hoisting a trophy and not winning a division, you know
• 49:05
  what I mean? Yeah, but are far are we giving
• 49:08
  the short term optics I no, I hear you, but are we giving the
• 49:11
  Dodgers too much credit and and the on saying that they've
• 49:13
  evolved they've. Matured to that point.
• 49:16
  That's my mindset. I was talking with a Co worker
• 49:18
  the other day. He's a he's a Dallas Cowboys fan
• 49:20
  and he's like you and I are the same in the way that like the
• 49:24
  regular season does not matter. It just needs to end with a
• 49:29
  trophy. You can sneak in as a wild card
• 49:32
  or you can go undefeated and take the division with Storm,
• 49:37
  but it doesn't matter unless there's a trophy.
• 49:40
  The Dodgers fit into that category.
• 49:42
  So if this is the Jonah Hill mentality of like, just stay the
• 49:47
  course. This was the plan.
• 49:49
  We're load managing a certain, you know, amount of guys with
• 49:52
  certain names and we're good enough.
• 49:56
  I don't know what their strength of schedule looks like on the
• 49:58
  way out, but these are all part of the equation, man.
• 50:01
  I don't know. Or it's real and the guy is, you
• 50:05
  know, hurting a little. Bit well, the other thing you
• 50:07
  got to keep in mind too. I don't know if I let's say let
• 50:11
  let's play naive here. Let's say that they are OK with
• 50:14
  the wild card and that's actually what they're planning
• 50:17
  for. They're hoping for the wild card
• 50:18
  'cause they don't want the break.
• 50:21
  That that way of thinking might have worked last year, the year
• 50:24
  before. You don't have any pitching
• 50:27
  right now. You need the break.
• 50:29
  You need the chance to reset to get guys healthy again.
• 50:34
  I get that, but you've probably already made this decision with
• 50:37
  certain names. I think Kershaw Glass now
• 50:41
  definitely fit in that category. But this was probably a Walker.
• 50:44
  Bueller's coming back and he's going to be healthy.
• 50:46
  Yamamoto is added to the to the rotation.
• 50:49
  You know what I mean? I think this is all, you know,
• 50:51
  part of the calculated thing. Where's my, where's my tinfoil
• 50:54
  hat? I'll put that puppy on.
• 50:55
  I don't know. There's no.
• 50:56
  Why not? Just ask questions, that's all.
• 50:59
  That's what I'm saying, hey. I hear you.
• 51:00
  I hear you Ask questions. Don't just take what you're
• 51:03
  given blindly. Ask questions.
• 51:06
  That's that's what you're supposed to do.
• 51:08
  There are no conspiracies surrounding Christian Yelich.
• 51:11
  However, Christian Yelich is officially out for the season.
• 51:14
  He was hoping, he even said I believe that there was no
• 51:17
  surgery planned earlier this summer, but that has since
• 51:21
  changed. He will now be out for the
• 51:22
  remainder of the season after compiling a resume this year,
• 51:28
  slashing 315, four O 6 and five O 4 with 11 homers and 42
• 51:32
  ribbies. This was certainly is bounce
• 51:39
  back the right word because didn't we already get the bounce
• 51:41
  back from Yelich? Sort of because I feel like I
• 51:45
  made this this prediction, but was that I think that was at the
• 51:49
  start of last season. I.
• 51:51
  Don't know. I don't think so.
• 51:51
  I would call this a comeback bounce back.
• 51:56
  Maybe I thought he had a bounce back last year, but it wasn't as
• 51:59
  impressive as I thought. The years are starting to run
• 52:02
  together. Maybe it was the year before
• 52:03
  that. I honestly don't remember.
• 52:06
  But yeah, All in all, solid year for Yelich.
• 52:10
  Tough blow for the Brewers, but they've won five straight.
• 52:13
  I think they're seven and three in the last 10.
• 52:15
  They're playing well. And as you and I were talking
• 52:17
  about before we hopped on, they're they're cruising to the
• 52:21
  division title at this point. I think they're what are they up
• 52:25
  11 on the Cardinals in the in the central.
• 52:28
  So that's all but official. And I think they're getting
• 52:33
  crazy good years out of their outfielders too.
• 52:35
  I mean, we know what Jackson Cheerio is doing, but I think
• 52:39
  this Garrett Mitchell kid and then the South S Freely kid from
• 52:42
  last year is like they're starting to, I think they're
• 52:46
  filling in the gaps. I think they're doing just fine
• 52:50
  and this is probably the moving forward group once the Yelich
• 52:56
  days are done. I do feel bad for Yelich though
• 52:58
  'cause this was he was doing well, man, he's doing well.
• 53:03
  I I love a good comeback story. And this, this feels different
• 53:07
  than like a Mike Trout thing, 'cause you're not constantly
• 53:09
  hearing the name Christian Yelich.
• 53:11
  It's like, oh man, yeah. This, I mean, this would be like
• 53:16
  a, this would be like if Chris Bryant came back next year and
• 53:19
  put up a 850 OPS. You know what I mean?
• 53:23
  Like you think this guy's dead in the water and we're you were
• 53:25
  done talking about him and then he puts together this kind of
• 53:28
  year. It just sucks that like there's
• 53:32
  certain names that are going to go down with injury history and
• 53:35
  that's just the way we're going to remember him.
• 53:37
  I think he's one of those guys. Too bad Brew crew though, damn.
• 53:44
  Are you are you taking them seriously now or have we turned
• 53:48
  a page here? Not yet.
• 53:50
  I could see the it's a soft division.
• 53:54
  OK, well, let's look beyond the division, though.
• 53:57
  Who? I mean, we just, we just went on
• 54:00
  and on about the Dodgers looking at the National League.
• 54:03
  Who are you? Who are you really concerned
• 54:06
  about? And I'm not saying there
• 54:07
  shouldn't be anybody you should be concerned about if you're the
• 54:10
  Brewers, But like, OK, you look at the Phillies, tied for the
• 54:17
  most wins in all of baseball. Well, what's the deal with the
• 54:21
  Yankees right now? They going to lose this game.
• 54:25
  It's a Little League classic. One nothing.
• 54:27
  Top nine. So Clay Holmes is coming in.
• 54:31
  You never know. Well, as of this minute, tied
• 54:34
  for the most wins in all of baseball with the, with the
• 54:39
  Yankees, Orioles and the Dodgers.
• 54:43
  And you're only if you're the Brewers, you're only a game
• 54:45
  behind them in the in the win column.
• 54:48
  The Dodgers, we know what they are.
• 54:52
  I mean, are we talking about a legitimate chance at the, at the
• 54:55
  very least the NLCS here if you're the Brewers and I'm not,
• 55:02
  I I don't feel one way or another.
• 55:04
  I'm just, I'm just throwing it out there.
• 55:08
  So who's lined up in the wild card?
• 55:11
  You've got Braves, Mets all in this conversation.
• 55:16
  At this very minute, the top three in order.
• 55:19
  You got the Padres, the D backs the Braves, and then knocking on
• 55:23
  the door, you've got the Mets two games back, the Giants four
• 55:25
  and the Cardinals. Five.
• 55:26
  See, that's what I'm saying. Let's let's just Fast forward
• 55:29
  and say the Dodgers somehow managed to hold on to the
• 55:31
  Division I I if I'm the Brewers, I don't know if I can handle
• 55:40
  what the Padres and Diamondbacks are about to do, You know what I
• 55:43
  mean? That's the way the matchups
• 55:46
  going to go. Why do I always why do I always
• 55:56
  get brain fog when I'm when I'm trying to map out the the
• 55:59
  postseason matchups? So if they finished with, let's
• 56:05
  just look at it snapshot right now.
• 56:07
  No, they're going to get the Phillies.
• 56:09
  They're going to get the No 'cause let's just say that the
• 56:12
  Phillies are going to have the best record in first round bye.
• 56:15
  They would then get the NL W winners, which would probably be
• 56:20
  the Dodgers. No, no, as the first round bye.
• 56:22
  Would you? You would get the.
• 56:26
  The Phillies would get the wild card team.
• 56:30
  The worst wild card team? Right after the that's the first
• 56:35
  round buy, right? Why?
• 56:37
  How does like the wild card buy is what I'm saying?
• 56:40
  Not like first round, like us. I'm saying like the wild card
• 56:43
  buy. So like, you're chilling, you
• 56:45
  got a week off, right? They're going to get the wild
• 56:48
  card team. That means if, if in fact, the
• 56:51
  Phillies hold on to the best record.
• 56:53
  They're going to get the wild card.
• 56:54
  OK. Yeah, yeah.
• 56:55
  Sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess.
• 56:56
  So. The Brewers are going to get the
• 56:58
  wild card team. The Brewers.
• 56:59
  Are going to get whoever comes out of the West, unless of
• 57:03
  course, the Brewers find a way to have the best record in the
• 57:07
  NL and get the wild card team, which is either going to be the
• 57:11
  Dodgers, the Padres or the Diamondbacks.
• 57:15
  Are you taking the Brewers over any three of those teams?
• 57:20
  I'm not. Maybe the D backs Padre, I don't
• 57:26
  know. There's I know the D backs.
• 57:30
  I mean, I think they got swept this weekend, but I.
• 57:33
  The lows are a little low with the with the D backs, yeah.
• 57:36
  Exactly. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to
• 57:37
  say. They've over the course of the
• 57:39
  last month, maybe even 2, they've been playing very, very,
• 57:43
  very well. I feel like I can see myself
• 57:48
  going with the Brewers over the D backs.
• 57:50
  Those other two, maybe not, but it just takes, it just takes a
• 57:56
  series or two to get hot and you're in the you're in the
• 57:58
  NLCS. Yeah, I I just think the NL is
• 58:04
  too good. Yeah, I don't know it honestly
• 58:12
  what's going to dictate a lot of this is who comes out of the
• 58:15
  West. That's 100.
• 58:17
  Percent at the top. At the top.
• 58:19
  And like, again, I I even though the skit is happening, like the
• 58:24
  Phillies are still still this way, you know what I'm saying?
• 58:28
  Like the Brewers have been dominant, they're just now tying
• 58:31
  the record for wins in that column, right?
• 58:35
  And but. Yeah.
• 58:38
  The Phillies, I mean, you got to expect their a, a, a switch to
• 58:41
  get flipped some point. Phillies go take that that best
• 58:46
  record in the NL and you're talking a Brewers match up with
• 58:51
  either with the West winner and the West winner is going to be
• 58:55
  three, one of three good teams. I feel like we have that wrong.
• 59:05
  I don't think we do. I think the Phillies will get
• 59:08
  the wild card team. It's a top seed versus the
• 59:11
  bottom seed. But there's three seeds coming
• 59:20
  out of the wild card, which we already know.
• 59:21
  I don't know why I'm overthinking this.
• 59:25
  I. Don't know.
• 59:26
  It's because it's confusing. There's a million teams in the
• 59:29
  postseason now. It used to be much simpler, you
• 59:32
  know, It just went straight to the LDS.
• 59:34
  I sure did sometimes a little more cutthroat to get that wild
• 59:38
  card spot. But if you were that wild card
• 59:41
  team, you earned it. You earned it.
• 59:45
  Yeah, it'll it'll just be interesting to see who comes out
• 59:48
  of the West on top. I'll be honest with you.
• 59:52
  If if what we talked about, if the Dodgers are like, hey, let's
• 59:55
  just punt on the division. Let's take the wild card route.
• 1:00:00
  I'm just going to say it right now.
• 1:00:03
  I could see him getting bounced in the wild card, I really
• 1:00:06
  could. Because we're super used to it.
• 1:00:08
  I really could used to see, but like we're we this is just a
• 1:00:13
  deal. I I know we say, oh, the
• 1:00:14
  Dodgers, the Dodgers, the Dodgers every year it seems.
• 1:00:17
  But like I think we very well know this is a different Dodgers
• 1:00:20
  team. The makeup is different.
• 1:00:21
  The amount of money shockingly, somehow is on a different level.
• 1:00:28
  And even with the injuries, I feel like on paper, Dodgers
• 1:00:33
  shouldn't be a team that gets bounced out of the wild card
• 1:00:36
  should they end up there. But we know that these playoff
• 1:00:39
  series are not won on paper and with the state of their
• 1:00:43
  rotation, I I could see I could see them getting bounced in the
• 1:00:48
  wild card. I really could.
• 1:00:50
  That's the other, that's the other conversation is that if
• 1:00:53
  they want to go the wild card route, you need more pitching.
• 1:00:57
  Which was my point of I don't think they are punting on the
• 1:01:00
  division because they need the rest.
• 1:01:02
  Some teams just. Prefer to roll right into it
• 1:01:05
  they need. The rest, I think they're OK
• 1:01:06
  with that being the fall back. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:01:08
  I'm not saying they're like purposely losing the division
• 1:01:11
  when it comes to the stretch, but I think that there are a lot
• 1:01:15
  of teams that are just very OK getting into the wild card
• 1:01:19
  'cause it keeps you guys hot and that's theirs.
• 1:01:22
  That's probably their mentality right now.
• 1:01:24
  It's like it's a lot of pressure on the offense.
• 1:01:27
  I hear you. Let's talk players weekend.
• 1:01:33
  Let's let's wrap this thing up. Is the Yankees game over yet?
• 1:01:37
  Can we officially tie a bow on this?
• 1:01:39
  No bottom. It's Clay Holmes.
• 1:01:40
  I told you 9. Of that oh, Yankees are up one.
• 1:01:44
  Nothing I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you.
• 1:01:46
  All right. Well, by the time hopefully we
• 1:01:49
  get to the end of the segment, Players weekend will officially
• 1:01:52
  be over. Who knows?
• 1:01:55
  Any thoughts, any takeaways from from the weekend?
• 1:01:58
  And look, I'll just get it out of the way right, right off the
• 1:02:01
  top here because I know you. I know you want to say it.
• 1:02:08
  Or do you want to say it? I don't want to.
• 1:02:09
  I don't want to steal your Thunder here.
• 1:02:10
  Do you want to say it? Just a lot of school supply
• 1:02:13
  bats, that's all. It's everywhere you look.
• 1:02:17
  I could not. I could not flip on a game
• 1:02:20
  without seeing six to seven pencils or crayons in either
• 1:02:26
  lineup. Like.
• 1:02:32
  Bryson Scott breaks out the pencil.
• 1:02:34
  What was it a year last year and then all of a sudden that it
• 1:02:38
  was, but I I guess, I guess it eliminated any sort of
• 1:02:42
  creativity to be. There I yeah, I don't think it's
• 1:02:45
  the players selecting this. I think it's the players that
• 1:02:47
  don't have any idea of like something creative to do
• 1:02:51
  something with. And then Victus and Chandler and
• 1:02:54
  TL are all just like, here's a crayon.
• 1:02:56
  I don't know. I don't know.
• 1:02:59
  There's just a lot of those. But before getting into like the
• 1:03:04
  equipment, I think it was some cool stories.
• 1:03:08
  I saw Kyle Finnegan that he went to the closer for the nationals
• 1:03:15
  went to I think it was a Children's Hospital out there.
• 1:03:19
  And like those kids actually like just like drew in his
• 1:03:22
  cleats. He gave him blank white cleats
• 1:03:24
  and they painted on him and stuff.
• 1:03:26
  And he like went and spoke with the kids.
• 1:03:28
  Like I think that's what and there you go see double.
• 1:03:33
  I think that's what like this is about.
• 1:03:36
  Like, I want to see those videos.
• 1:03:38
  I want to see more of those because that's what this
• 1:03:42
  weekend, a lot of it is about who, by the way, I'm just going
• 1:03:47
  to go out there and say it. Kyle Finnegan looks like when
• 1:03:50
  Shrek turned into a human. You know exactly what I'm
• 1:03:54
  talking. About.
• 1:03:57
  You know exactly what what he turned Ogre into a human.
• 1:04:00
  By the way, a name I think we already mentioned should have
• 1:04:03
  been traded at the deadline. Not sure why he's still in the
• 1:04:05
  Nationals uniform. I don't know, he's like top five
• 1:04:09
  in the league in saves, I believe yeah.
• 1:04:14
  But anyway, him Freddie Freeman doing like the, I think he's
• 1:04:18
  talking about like his son and the stuff that he's going
• 1:04:20
  through right now and like the foundation that they're trying
• 1:04:22
  to get connected with for that syndrome that his son Max is
• 1:04:26
  dealing with. So there's like there's some
• 1:04:28
  good stuff. There's some good stories.
• 1:04:30
  That's what we're here for. That's what this is supposed to
• 1:04:34
  be about. I didn't get too much of like
• 1:04:37
  the The Who helped get you here stuff.
• 1:04:45
  Well, I told you I I saw that article.
• 1:04:50
  Who whoever came up with this title needs to be fired.
• 1:04:53
  I'm sorry, just such a weird title for an article.
• 1:04:57
  I was scrolling, scrolling just some headlines from players
• 1:05:00
  weekend and I don't remember if it was MLB.com or something, but
• 1:05:04
  the the article read something to the effect of Bobby Witt
• 1:05:09
  credits his four moms for helping him get to where he is
• 1:05:14
  or something or something. Like I said, something to that
• 1:05:16
  effect. I'm like, OK, clearly click
• 1:05:19
  bait. They want you to, they want you
• 1:05:20
  to read into what this means. Click.
• 1:05:23
  What did I do? I clicked it.
• 1:05:24
  And if you're listed to this, you're probably going to click
• 1:05:26
  it too. But I'll save you the click and
• 1:05:28
  just tell you what it was. I I clicked read through the
• 1:05:31
  article and I think one of the first sentences was Bobby.
• 1:05:37
  It's like a, it's a rephrasing of the title and it's like Bobby
• 1:05:40
  Witt credits his his mom and three older sisters for helping
• 1:05:44
  him achieve his dreams or something.
• 1:05:46
  And I'm like, what in the what in the ancestor we talking about
• 1:05:53
  here like? That's such a what in the Game
• 1:05:55
  of Thrones that we got going on here?
• 1:05:57
  I mean, I Bobby Witt. I nothing against Bobby Witt,
• 1:06:00
  nothing against his mom. His sisters love Bobby Witt,
• 1:06:04
  friend of the program, but the guy?
• 1:06:07
  Drop a drop a program. Program friend of the program,
• 1:06:10
  whoever whoever wrote that article, reconsider your life
• 1:06:15
  choices That that's such a weird like come up with your click
• 1:06:18
  bait elsewhere. That's that's just a weird
• 1:06:20
  headline. Super strange.
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  Four moms, come on, it's. Probably a quote.
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  He's like, yeah, I felt like I had four moms when I was a kid.
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  I don't. It's probably something weird.
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  Well, if that's the case, then my apologies, Bobby Witt.
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  And your heart's in a good place and I, I appreciate.
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  You so clearly you clicked on it, but you just didn't read.
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  You just. Well, that's what we do these
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  days. We just read.
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  We read the headline article headlines.
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  Now I need to now I need to feel like I I got to go back and read
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  that to see if I'm it probably, it probably was him.
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  Yeah, I just wish I saw more of the like, more of the other
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  stuff. Oh, I'm trying not to sound so
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  cynical, but like the the numbers on the sides of the
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  hats. I don't know, I don't know, I
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  would have liked to seen like, let's do the stories in the
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  numbers. How about that like the numbers
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  on your back be filled in with something.
• 1:07:27
  If it's one of your kids designs, if it's one of the
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  children's hospitals, things like put that in your numbers.
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  You know what I'm saying? Like have fun with numbers.
• 1:07:35
  I the the things on the hat. It was just like random and.
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  Yeah, that looked like that looked like the designer NASCAR
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  got drunk and decided to just create a combobulation of.
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  By the way, apologies to Anthony Castro, Vince.
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  It was it was a quote. It was definitely a quote.
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  That's hey, that's on me, Bobby. That's that's my bad.
• 1:08:02
  Well, hey. That's on me.
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  You. Gotta do what you gotta do.
• 1:08:05
  Hey, I'm getting his jersey here soon.
• 1:08:07
  Like within. After dubs what you're saying?
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  So I'm I'm going to make it up to you, Bobby.
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  I promise. I'm going to I'm going to snag
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  that. That royal or that baby blue.
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  Tie game, I'm told you. The New York Yankees have blown
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  the one nothing lead in the 9th inning of the Little League
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  Classic in Williamsport, PA. You'll love to see it.
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  You'll love to see it. Yankee fans everywhere ready to
• 1:08:39
  throw their phone through the television screen.
• 1:08:46
  You'll love to see this. Is what I'm saying though.
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  This is the maturation of the man you're looking at.
• 1:08:51
  The. Maturation does not matter.
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  Maturation is not the right word.
• 1:08:55
  You've just, you've just given up on the Yankees as a whole.
• 1:08:58
  You it's a it's a lifeless fandom.
• 1:09:01
  I'm not going to, I'm not going to get too high or too low on on
• 1:09:06
  the regular season. Speaking of Little League
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  Classic, as, as we've said the years prior that they've done
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  this an awesome experience. And it got me thinking because
• 1:09:18
  I'm, I'm seeing all these videos of, I mean, I, I was watching
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  it, but I, I, I saw these social clips of the guys walking to the
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  stadium down that like Rd. that they kind of had marked out for
• 1:09:32
  him and the players are walking alongside him like dapping them
• 1:09:35
  up, getting autographs, taking selfies, all that stuff.
• 1:09:38
  It kind of got me thinking, I was like, OK, let's go back to
• 1:09:44
  where what did I, what did I search for that I was like, let
• 1:09:48
  me go back to 2006 because the year you and I were in the state
• 1:09:54
  championship and All Stars, we if we would have won that, we
• 1:09:58
  would have gone on to regionals. And then we would have, if we
• 1:10:01
  would have won that which we would have had to face Kyle
• 1:10:04
  Carter. And if if you know anything, if
• 1:10:06
  you remember anything from the early 2000s Little League days,
• 1:10:09
  you know that Kyle Carter was like the legend of legends.
• 1:10:12
  So we probably weren't going to make it out of the regional
• 1:10:14
  tournament. But I was like, I wanted to date
• 1:10:18
  ourselves a little bit here because I was like, OK, this was
• 1:10:20
  2006. So I pulled up the top hitting
• 1:10:23
  stats of like the top hitters of the guys that possibly could
• 1:10:28
  have been if there was a Little League Classic back in 2006, who
• 1:10:33
  some possible names would have been walking down the concourse
• 1:10:38
  alongside of us had we made it to Williamsport.
• 1:10:42
  So some of the names just going it it pre sorted it by OPS.
• 1:10:47
  So across all of Major League Baseball in 2006, in order,
• 1:10:52
  starting from the top, we have Albert Pujols, Travis Hafner,
• 1:10:58
  Ryan Howard. By the way, Ryan Howard, I think
• 1:11:03
  LED all of baseball and home runs that year with 58.
• 1:11:05
  Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, Lance Berkman, Jim Tomy,
• 1:11:10
  Jermaine Dye, Miguel Cabrera, Carlos Beltran, Matt Holiday,
• 1:11:16
  Jason Giambi, Garrett Adkins, Nick Johnson, Joe Bauer.
• 1:11:20
  Those are the top 15 by OPS. We would have had we would had
• 1:11:24
  some names stepping us up man, if that was the thing.
• 1:11:28
  That would have been sick, but like I said, not to not to 18
• 1:11:32
  years. Ago 18 years ago, dude. 18 years
• 1:11:36
  ago I'm. Going to take a nap just
• 1:11:38
  hearing. That Yep, 18 years ago no but
• 1:11:42
  bringing it back to Kurt day though it's it's just awesome
• 1:11:44
  and you and I were losing it laughing at these kids behind
• 1:11:48
  Soto as he's doing the shuffle like mid 80s they're.
• 1:11:51
  Losing it, it's just. Going nuts, man.
• 1:11:55
  And it's this was one of those things where it's like, whoever
• 1:11:59
  made the decision to incorporate this idea to, to craft the
• 1:12:03
  vision to make an event like this happen and not just
• 1:12:06
  happened once, but to make it happen year after year after
• 1:12:08
  year. Kudos you.
• 1:12:10
  This was an easy win. This was such an easy and and
• 1:12:15
  direct way, key emphasis on direct, an easy and direct way
• 1:12:22
  to reach the younger generation, the Little League generation who
• 1:12:27
  are living probably the best summer of their young lives
• 1:12:31
  right now. This is unforgettable stuff.
• 1:12:33
  Dude, I mean, you were, we were, we made it to the state
• 1:12:35
  championship. And I still think back to that
• 1:12:38
  summer being like one of the best of my life.
• 1:12:40
  These kids are the Little League World Series and they're hanging
• 1:12:42
  out around some of the bet. Well, as it stands right now,
• 1:12:46
  the two best hitters in baseball, yeah, just to name a
• 1:12:49
  couple, not not to mention the other names are floating around
• 1:12:52
  Williamsport right now. And we talked about how like
• 1:12:54
  they get to like roam around. Like you see these kids like
• 1:12:57
  roaming around because they're, there's just bleachers.
• 1:13:00
  There's no like seats. You don't have to worry about
• 1:13:02
  being rude in front of other fans or anything.
• 1:13:05
  So they like run down to the top of the dugout and they're
• 1:13:08
  getting their phones out and Snapchatting or whatever.
• 1:13:11
  And they're just getting to see like it's just this has got to
• 1:13:16
  be the coolest thing. Like the parents are sitting up
• 1:13:18
  the line in like a different section.
• 1:13:20
  You know, you just have like coaches and kids right behind
• 1:13:23
  home plate. Like the I think this probably
• 1:13:27
  has grown into like my favorite non Major League stadium event.
• 1:13:38
  Cool. Do your thing in Korea,
• 1:13:41
  Australia, England, Mexico, whatever.
• 1:13:47
  That's cool too, Turkey. But when we talk about like what
• 1:13:54
  it's supposed to do and like what this game is, that's it's
• 1:13:57
  this, this game, it's exactly what this is.
• 1:14:02
  And there's kids in there that are probably going to be on this
• 1:14:07
  field someday, you know what I mean?
• 1:14:09
  And it's a that's a great point. It's a kids game.
• 1:14:14
  You grow the game by investing in the kids because to your
• 1:14:18
  point, these are going to be the same kids.
• 1:14:20
  And and that we're not just throwing that out there like, Oh
• 1:14:23
  yeah, they may end up here. You see it all the time.
• 1:14:25
  You see the graphics of these kids, the Little League
• 1:14:28
  pictures, not just on on on this weekend when they have the game,
• 1:14:32
  but at any point during the year, you get a Sunday night
• 1:14:35
  baseball game and they they do like a flashback like oh, such
• 1:14:39
  and such was in the Little League World Series representing
• 1:14:41
  the New England era region back in 2012.
• 1:14:47
  I don't know that like that's what we're that's that's what
• 1:14:52
  we're dealing with. And if you if you continue to
• 1:14:54
  invest in that as a league, you're only you're only helping
• 1:14:59
  yourself. Like, yeah, you're doing
• 1:15:01
  incredible things for for the kids that are there.
• 1:15:04
  But just for the longevity of the game and for the the ceiling
• 1:15:10
  and potential that you can tap into as a game, as a sport,
• 1:15:15
  you're doing numbers for yourself by putting this on a
• 1:15:19
  national scale. Because, you know, not just the
• 1:15:23
  kids that are there tonight, the kids that are watching on TV
• 1:15:25
  going, I want to be that kid. And then they latch on to
• 1:15:31
  baseball at a young age. And now they're watching a
• 1:15:33
  random game in August on a, on a, well, random game in May next
• 1:15:39
  year on a Thursday night. And then they're going, I want
• 1:15:44
  to be that player. And then they get into their
• 1:15:47
  local Little League. And then that's the kid that
• 1:15:49
  ends up on your TV So, so many odd years later.
• 1:15:54
  That's how that works. This is an easy dub for Major
• 1:15:57
  League Baseball. I love that they have not thrown
• 1:15:59
  this to the wayside and that they're continuing to make it a
• 1:16:03
  yearly thing and to give these kids an opportunity of a
• 1:16:07
  lifetime. To take in, yeah, to take in a
• 1:16:09
  game this way. It's incredible.
• 1:16:13
  And the, and the, I love that there's like no old creepy men
• 1:16:20
  trying to get like shoving kids out of the way to get their ball
• 1:16:23
  signed. Like this is all of I bet.
• 1:16:26
  I bet 95% of those kids in the stands got some type of jazz was
• 1:16:31
  sitting in there. Jazz was just hanging out in the
• 1:16:33
  crowd in the middle of the game, just sitting there swapping
• 1:16:36
  bracelets with kids like these are it's got to be the coolest
• 1:16:41
  environment. I'm jealous.
• 1:16:43
  I wish I got to experience that as a kid.
• 1:16:45
  Well, I don't know if we can be so certain that no creepy old
• 1:16:47
  men are in there. I'm, I think I Zach Hample
• 1:16:51
  probably transformed himself into an actual chair.
• 1:16:57
  So he's probably just like sitting there like this trying
• 1:17:01
  to blend in. You didn't hear he got like
• 1:17:03
  trampled today at at Camden Yards and like started screaming
• 1:17:08
  at Oriole fans. I only know he was at.
• 1:17:10
  Camden today. Yeah, I only know this because
• 1:17:13
  I'm in the freaking Twitter timeline of Orioles fans, thanks
• 1:17:20
  to Ryan. So A.
• 1:17:21
  Steady stream. Yeah, he got trampled.
• 1:17:24
  He started like yelling at dudes half of after like an athlete
• 1:17:27
  home run or something. I don't know.
• 1:17:29
  Well, I'm glad he's not in Williamsport.
• 1:17:31
  Leave. He got kids alone.
• 1:17:32
  He got, like, bumped into the foul pole, I think.
• 1:17:39
  Oh, awesome. Yeah.
• 1:17:41
  Unbelievable. Guys anyway 50 isn't he like
• 1:17:43
  stop? Stay at Williamsport, leave
• 1:17:47
  those kids alone anyway. Just hanging out in the trees in
• 1:17:54
  the back. And anyone saying they go, why
• 1:17:57
  are you taking unnecessary shots, unnecessary shots at Zach
• 1:18:00
  Campbell? We've brushed shoulders with him
• 1:18:01
  on multiple occasions. So we, no, I don't want to talk
• 1:18:06
  about it. I'm not giving that guy anywhere
• 1:18:08
  your time. Two different cities too.
• 1:18:12
  Unbelievable. Anyway, that's all I really got.
• 1:18:18
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• 1:18:20
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• 1:18:39
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• 1:18:43
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  I believe in you, the people. Well, that's what I'm saying.
• 1:18:50
  Us as the three or take community, I believe in us.
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  Will brainstorm on that. Any who.
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  Figure it out. Yeah, good stuff.
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  Let's have a good week, everyone.
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• 1:19:14
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• 1:19:16
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